The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-27
NOTES.

STEWART, of Georgia, and our MoKIN
NEY, of New Hampshire, are the only two
ministers in the Fiftieth Congress.
SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON, recognized
authority in physical science, says that it
would be rash "to reckon on more than
five or six million years of sunlight for
the future" What then?
"a MAN who cannot give 800 a year
for his church." says the Christian Req.
lister, "will spend thousands for pictures
he never looks at, books he never reads,
and horses he never drives"
ANDREW LANG, the well-known En-
giish essayist, is preparing an article for
the September number OF the Forum.
that is likely to contain some pretty sharp
thrusts, on "The Manners of Critics"
HERBERT SPENCER tells us that only
sleep and laughter rest the brain. We
observed several people at church last
Sunday (says an exchange) resting their
brains, and they weren't laughing either.
"IN our day of manifold church work."
says the Western Advocate, s'there is an
insidious danger that it will overshadow
and extinguish church life. Much SER
vice is good, but first OF all God asks the
service of love-"
AN important notice in regard to the
Woman's Centenary Association is printed
this week on the eighth page. Let it re-
ceive attention from those directly inter-
ested-the vice-presidents in the several
States.
JOHN BRIGHT has signed the American
Peace Memorial. In all 173 members of
the House of Commons have signed the
document, and nine OF them have con-
sented to join the deputation which will
take the memorial to America.
KANSAS boasts Of 100000 church mem.
bers, divided between 1875, 900 Professionals
and $1,000 Catholics. This number is
divided into 2.671 church organizations
worshiping in 1880 church edifices. The
total value OF church property is estimat
ed at nearly five million dollars.
GONE Of the best Fourth of July adj
dresses coming under our notice, remarks
the Gdlesburg Register, "was delivered
by Rev. b. l.. CoNaER. at Pasadena, Gal.
He was one of several speakers, and his
Grafton was 'On the Relation of Books to
Free Institutions" The Register gives
several paragraphs from this address.
AN Egyptian papyrus, forty-two feet
long and containing all the chapters of
the "Book OF the Dead" has been re-
ceiyed and unrolled at the Sage Library
in New Brunswick, N. J. TWAS secured
for the library by Rev. DR.. Lansing, a
well-know missionary in Egypt. Experts
pronounce it to have been written nearly
5000 years ago.
The manuscript OF REV HENRY M.
FIELD letter to Col. INaERsoLL, printed
In the North American ReUieaU, was sent
to the latter by the author with the prom
Use that "if it contained one word that
was offensive to him it should be stricken
out" Col. INGERsoLL replied that there
was nothing, although he did not agree
with DR.. FIELDS conclusions.
HE Baptist Quarterly quotes Alexan-
der Campbell as having said, only few
months before his death: " MY head is
full of books; / will write on until l
empty it. will never take holiday in
this world; 1 will leave them all for
heaven" He would probably have writ
ten more and better books if he had not
waited for his holiday in heaven.
81 don't believe in his religion" said
critic regarding well-to-do farmer who
was an active church member. "He is
too lazy TO get ready for meeting in sea-
son Sunday mornings, always starts late,
and then whips his horse pretty much all
the two miles to get there in time. No,
l don't believe in his religion" The Con-
gregdtionalist quotes to approve and
many will endorse.
PRESIDENT ANGELL OF the State Uni
versity Of Michigan, once said in an adj
dress at State Teachers Association,
that he was sometimes greatly panied by
being in the presence of people "who
we're so exceedingly precise that you
could hear the grammar machine squeak
ing inside" 1t is fact that give man
something 70 say of Importance, and if he
be in earnest, he will say it in the best
possible way.
Unity says: More of the sins of to-day,
and perhaps we may say OF all days. are
traceable to an inordinate love of money
than to anything else. Money! Aen lie
for it, steal it, give their lives for it, cheat
themselves out of all the best that life
sffords for this imaginary good-money.
All our lives are poisoned at their very
sources by this greatest and saddest of
Misunderstanding for money. Let us live
for life, for love, for God, at least one day
in seven.
THURSDAY, August IL, was the centen-
NAL OF the publication of the first news
paper published west of the Allegheny
River. 1t was August IL, 1857, that John
Bradford was able to get out the fret
copy of the Kentucky Gazette at Lexing-